displant

1. (transitive, archaic) To remove anything from where it has been planted or placed; to drive a person from their home.Examples: "[…] Hang up philosophy! Unless philosophy can make a Juliet, Displant a town, reverse a prince’s doom, It helps not, it prevails not: talk no more."; "I like a Plantation in a pure Soyl, that is, where People are not Displanted, to the end, to Plant others; for else it is rather an Extirpation, than a Plantation."; "But the Ships, in which this second Colony was transported, had not been many Days returned into England, before we find Ralegh’s Thoughts diverted, for a while, from planting in a foreign Country, and engaged upon Schemes of displanting rather those powerful Enemies who were preparing to root themselves in his own."Synonyms: displacearchaictransitive